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This new-ish patent is interesting because it shows a gondola system with a bit of a twist. Instead of traditional gondola cabins, this system would use detachable autonomous vehicles that could drive to and from the gondola station(s). This could have several benefits - for example, they wouldn't have to retrofit their existing hotels to add gondola stations, and they wouldn't have to choose which hotels would get a station and which wouldn't - instead they could just use the existing bus stop infrastructure and let the autonomous vehicles drive to/from the different gondola lines. It definitely adds more flexibility into the system!